These laws boil down to being as ruthless, selfish, manipulative, and deceitful as possible. This power game can be played well or poorly, and in these 48 laws culled from the history and wisdom of the world’s greatest power players are the rules that must be followed to win. We live today as courtiers once did in royal courts: we must appear civil while attempting to crush all those around us.
The authors have created a sort of anti-Book of Virtues in this encyclopedic compendium of the ways and means of power.Įveryone wants power and everyone is in a constant duplicitous game to gain more power at the expense of others, according to Greene, a screenwriter and former editor at Esquire (Elffers, a book packager, designed the volume, with its attractive marginalia). Her acceptance of a fluid identity should be comforting for readers who feel out of place in a cultural system that divides gender into traditional male and female roles.Īn honest and helpfully specific journey through a life that has taken some unexpected turns, of interest to all open-minded readers and especially to transgender individuals and those who care about them. She describes in cheerful detail the process of transitioning, including the effects of hormones on her body and personality, both positive and negative, and she details her present state of indecision about just how far to go with transition. Though generally upbeat, Styles also reveals a more tormented side in a chapter called “The B-Side,” which details long periods of depression and drug and alcohol abuse, eventually abated through 12-step programs. Eventually, however, he wanted a more permanent and less showy change, so he began to communicate with his family, whom he had previously kept in the dark about his gender identity. For a while, the author satisfied his desire to dress as a woman by performing in drag shows. Bullied as an early teen, he found a home later in adolescence with other teens involved in art and music and then went on to London to study jewelry making in art school. She begins with memories of growing up in rural England in the 1980s, often switching “between the roles of girl and boy in my head, unsure of which one felt more secure.” Young Ryan-who changed his name to Rhyannon when he began transitioning-liked to dress in girls' clothes and wear makeup and felt at home with the girls in his primary school.
from 2015 to 2017, reaches out to readers who wonder about the often awkward and confusing process of transitioning. In her first book, the British author, who was the transgender columnist for Elle U.K. Styles, who began transitioning from male to female at age 30 in 2012, looks back over the path of her life from childhood up to the present.
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